The School Age Child:
Age of Conscience*
Teach your kid stories,
About moral authorities.**
Heroes that you hold in high esteem,
For which your child can then dream.
Stimulating a moral imagination,
Is the obligation of the adult generation.
Kids this age are intrigued with what's right and wrong.
Teach them through dance and song.
Your EXAMPLE plus book discussions,
Will gird your child (soon to be teenager)
In case of moral repercussions.
Lester J. Hartman, MD
*Title adapted from The Moral Intelligence of Children by Dr. Robert Coles.
**Religious or non-religious.